Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2022

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Market your solution and user benefits, not the mysterious technology behind it. I know companies who collect sensitive data from consumers all the time, and still seem to keep a trusted image (Amazon.com, Ebay). Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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socalTECH

JUNE 7, 2021

The company was launched in 2017, and now says it has over 10 million customers. Dave offers up an app which provides help with banking, financial insights, overdraft protection, building credit and finding side gigs. million members.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? Here’s why that should scare you… In recent years the pace of the market has accelerated dramatically. Anyone could submit an idea, and others in the customer community could participate by upvoting and commenting on the ideas they liked best! Still prioritizing features in a spreadsheet?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Have you ever noticed that some of your business owner friends get all the bad customers, and yours all seem fairly reasonable? I’m always amazed that, in my role as a business advisor, bad customers somehow seem to gang up on certain businesses. The reality is that we all make mistakes, so no customer is always right.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. Marketing is one of the likeliest areas that will gain tremendously from the impact of this technology. With the improvements in display resolution, marketers have the opportunity to create more compelling content for customers.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2019

Canoo began life as EVelozcity back in 2017. Now, Canoo is rounding out its executive team and pushing forward with plans to bring prototype vehicles to market by the end of the year. It’s a quick ramp for a company that only two years ago was struggling to extricate itself from the morass that was Faraday Future. operations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Viral marketing and word-of-mouth are not enough these days to make your product and brand visible in the relentless onslaught of new promotional media out there today. Innovation in marketing is perhaps more important than product innovation. Yet in the business plans I see, the marketing content and budget are smaller than ever.

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socalTECH

JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , a provider of advertising services and technology for the online radio streaming, digital audio and podcasting markets, has acquired Omny Studio , a developer of a podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

retail stores will open in Los Angeles, New York City and two locations in San Francisco later this year — the latest milestone for the automaker as it gets closer to bringing its all-electric vehicle to market. The 2021 Polestar 2 is the first EV to come out of Polestar since it was recast as an electric performance brand in 2017.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2017

Every business I know is intimately familiar with outbound marketing, or pushing your message out to customers through email, newspaper, and television advertising. Only a few really understand the process and value of inbound marketing, for pulling customers to your brand. Don’t just monitor – engage customers.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. ReplyYes is a frictionless e-commerce over mobile messaging experience: customers simply reply “YES” to buy the product and have it delivered. ProductionPro pulls scripts, research, designs, and continuity together to empower creative decision-making.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

It’s clear things have changed for good and the need for managing remote communities of employees, customers and partners has become ever more important. In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2017

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 -- Funding your Innovation. This course is about selling your innovation to investors, grant proposal reviewers, potential strategic partners, and to your intended customers. Do you need to build better market traction? Are your target customers not buying-in? Santa Ana District SBDC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2022

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president of Ignite Social Media , one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Saturday, October 14, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Cybersecurity. The Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum will be devoted to identifying entrepreneurial opportunities for providing tools to combat cyber threats. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. Stan Stahl, president of Citadel Information Group and SecureTheVillage. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. With this announcement, Cartken officially comes out of stealth mode.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 21, 2019

During the summer of 2017, the rumor of a popup store in LA generated a crowd of 500. In-store customers are limited to purchasing one unit of each product. Some online customers utilize bots, at about $100 per use, to ensure they will have a legitimate shot at fulfilling at least part of their wish list.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S. The addressable market for campuses that would likely use Starship’s services is around 400-500, he said, “but grocery is billions of dollars. It has now made more than 2.5

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We are bridging the gap between casual, self service dating apps, and traditional matchmaking, and doing it for business professionals in the dating market. Right now, there are no real efficient products in the dating market. It was really incredible to me, that there was such a white space in the market. What are they reading?

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

We focus on digital transformation and customer experience. When you start doing that, you create an offering that can be purchased by more customers, and that becomes easier to maintain for us. 2017 will be a great year for us. It's about the customer life cycle, and taking a single view of your customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

With the advent of the Internet, social media, and instant communication via texting, customer expectations for service, as part of their entire customer experience, have changed. They expect you to be there, to know their history as a customer, and to treat them with priority and respect.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

Santa Monica-based sales and marketing customer relationship management (CRM) tools developer Nimble is further integrating its tools with partner Microsoft, and its Office 365 software, as well as Google's G Suite, with a new business dashboarding tool. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

The company counts major clients like TripAdvisor, Lululemon, HD Supply, Express Scripts and Spirit Airlines, among its roster of customers and will use the funding led by Battery to further expand its sales and marketing and product development efforts. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In terms of artist side, the reason they use us is an alternative to radio promotion and marketing. It's a vehicle for marketing new releases, no pun intended. For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

In my role as a mentor to entrepreneurs and an angel investor, I find that too many are stuck in this myth that a good pitch, and good marketing content, should consist of more product features, and more hype on customer benefits. Customers buy from people they trust, respect, and admire. We need more than facts to convince.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Given the competition coming into the market, it’s no wonder that Wrench is raising additional capital to expand its footprint into new markets. Wrench raised $4 million in its first round of financing, which TechCrunch covered back in 2017. The company also said it intends to use the financing to make some key hires.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

In terms of artist side, the reason they use us is an alternative to radio promotion and marketing. It's a vehicle for marketing new releases, no pun intended. For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Yet I find that few of today’s workers realize that succeeding as a freelancer requires a whole new focus on “marketing” yourself. As you know, things can change quickly, as businesses try to survive and adapt to an evolving market, so it’s better to be prepared than caught off guard. Walk away from a bad role or customer.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

With a community forum, along with its aims to offer easily accessible and readable annual reports (you can view reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019 on its site), Monzo champions transparency. Monzo was included in our 10 Innovative UK-Based Tech Startups Making Moves in 2017. 24/7 human customer service. million users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Test new things and keep testing in your market for things that work. Count the number of new projects, time and resources required to implement, and measure the return in revenue, customer satisfaction, or cost savings. Create a non-online memorable customer experience. Look for growth in emerging global market geographies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2016

We have made a big push this year to bolster our team with healthcare industry expertise to help provide our customers with exceptional outcomes. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. Every VC who’s been the business for a long time realized first hand that the VC markets were changing rapidly as early as Q3 of 2015. But of course public markets had begun gyrating. $30 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Isn’t it frustrating to think you finally understand something in business, like marketing with social media, only to realize that the landscape changed while you were looking at other priorities? Jim should know, since he is the president of Ignite Social Media , one of the best known social media marketing agencies.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based AvantStay has been around since 2017 and had only raised $25 million in the last four years. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said. “Customers are starting to meet the demand from an experience perspective in rental homes,” he said.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

Founded in 2011, Z Supply, LLC has created five women’s fashion brands with a sixth brand and extension into Men’s, launching Spring 2017. I ended up really relating to the nuance and intricacies of product supply and customer demand. Secondly, eCommerce is a powerful marketing platform for us.

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